Young Entrepreneur – Applied Economics 2010 - 2012

The goal of this Project is to improve the initial vocational education of youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the fields

• Young Entrepreneur
  by establishing entrepreneurship as a subject and as teaching method at secondary vocational colleges
  • Training of 10 multipliers and 60 more teachers of secondary vocational schools from all over the country
  • Training of about 4.000 students (about 160 classes, each 25 students) in the first 2 years
  • editing a handbook for teachers, savings book for innovations for students

• Applied Economics
  by enlarging the existing training firm network
  
  • open-plan offices for students‘ training within training firms on three schools, a Bosnian, a Croatic and a Serbian one

It is meant to support each of the three ethnic groups in Bosnia-Herzegovina in an equal way.

Entrepreneurship Education will be stressed in future in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The experiences made in the Rotary Foundation Matching Grants projects will be the nucleus of this process. The teachers instructed with the help of Rotary will be used to train more teachers of all vocational colleges. After completion the process of dissemination all students of secondary vocational colleges in Bosnia and Hezegovina will benefit from the Rotarian activities. Thus the project is designed as a pilot-scheme and meant as help for self-help. Moreover the project will ameliorate the understanding of the people living in Bosnia and Herzegovina and broaden the cooperation beyond political and ethnical prejudices. We will address our efforts to the stabilization of the political situation of this region.

Entrepreneurship-Education

“Entrepreneurship refers to an individual’s ability to turn ideas into action. It includes creativity, innovation and risk taking, as well as the ability to plan and manage projects in order to achieve objectives. This supports everyone in day-to-day life at home and in society, makes employees more aware of the context of their work and better able to seize opportunities, and provides a foundation for entrepreneurs establishing a social or commercial activity.” (European Commission proposal for a Recommendation on Key Competences for Lifelong Learning COM(2005)548 final)

Project-partners

• Rotary Club Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Rotary Club Erfurt, Germany
• Rotary Club Gmunden-Traunsee, Austria
• Rotary Club Kitzbühel, Austria
• Rotary Club Lignano-Sabbiadoro, Italy
• Rotary Club Salzburg-Land, Austria
• Rotary Club Salzburg St. Rupert, Austria
• Rotary Club Wolfratshausen, Germany
• Initiative for Training Entrepreneurship Vienna, Austria

Supporting institutions

• KulturKontakt Austria
• Rotary Districts 1910 + 1920 + 1840
• Rotary Foundation

Preliminary projects and links

The project resumes

• the non-Rotarian Austrian educational projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1994. In the framework of these projects among other things a training firm network was set up and involved into the international training firm network
• the Rotary Foundation Matching Grants projects # 64571, # 65109 and # 65859 - Implementing Entrepreneurship – Education into the initial vocational education of youth in Bulgaria 2007 – 2010.

The project is linked with

• the non-Rotarian Austrian educational project ECO NET 2009-2013 to improve the primary vocational education of the youth in Bosnia-Herzegovina by enlarging the existing training firm network
• the Summer Universities for Entrepreneurship in Kitzbühel, Austria, 2011 and 2012. Bosnian teachers will share these events.